Tracking, differentiation, and how being noticed can save you
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When I was getting educated to be a teacher, I remember hearing a lot about how “tracking” classrooms was preferential at best, and prejudicial at worst. The idea behind tracking is that one puts individual students in classrooms based on their “exceptionalities.” Students who perform better on standardized tests are placed in faster-paced, more rigorous classrooms, and students who don’t, get put in other classrooms. The reason this is unjust, by and large, is because the racial and socioeconomic differences between “fast tracked” and “slower paced” classrooms are stark.
Tracking, differentiation, and how being noticed can save you
Tracking, differentiation, and how being…
Tracking, differentiation, and how being noticed can save you
When I was getting educated to be a teacher, I remember hearing a lot about how “tracking” classrooms was preferential at best, and prejudicial at worst. The idea behind tracking is that one puts individual students in classrooms based on their “exceptionalities.” Students who perform better on standardized tests are placed in faster-paced, more rigorous classrooms, and students who don’t, get put in other classrooms. The reason this is unjust, by and large, is because the racial and socioeconomic differences between “fast tracked” and “slower paced” classrooms are stark.